History YMMV / FateHollowAtaraxia

* AuthorTract: During the opening montage, Avenger starts ranting about how the world is dying and how much better things were in the good ol' days.

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* AuthorTract: During the opening montage, Avenger starts ranting about how the world is dying and how much better things were in the good ol' days. Then again, this is a physical fact of the setting that [[TimeAbyss Avenger]] would obviously be aware of, and [[OlderIsBetter this ideology]] isn't particularly pushed by Nasu in this work or any other, so ...

* The Butt Monkey: It's expected with Lancer, but in the Hanafuda minigames, it's pushed to the extreme, with Lancer being pushed around and berated by Gilgamesh and Kirei, pummeled by Berserker, getting called a moron by HIMSELF, and having all his hard earned money stolen by Caren to pay for their hot springs trip. When Kotomine's team is doing poorly in a game, the blame immediately goes to Lancer, and Kirei says it's "seppuku time." When Lancer gets flattenned by Berserker, Gilgamesh say that Lancer's kind is "the lowest of the low, basic human rights need not apply to him", and admits that the only thing he needs Lancer for is holding his cards while they play- and that' not even in a route that directly involves Kotomine's team, Lancer can't escape abuse even in other people's routes!

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* The Butt Monkey: ButtMonkey: It's expected with Lancer, but in the Hanafuda minigames, it's pushed to the extreme, with Lancer being pushed around and berated by Gilgamesh and Kirei, pummeled by Berserker, getting called a moron by HIMSELF, and having all his hard earned money stolen by Caren to pay for their hot springs trip. When Kotomine's team is doing poorly in a game, the blame immediately goes to Lancer, and Kirei says it's "seppuku time." When Lancer gets flattenned by Berserker, Gilgamesh say that Lancer's kind is "the lowest of the low, basic human rights need not apply to him", and admits that the only thing he needs Lancer for is holding his cards while they play- and that' not even in a route that directly involves Kotomine's team, Lancer can't escape abuse even in other people's routes!

* Butt Monkey: It's expected with Lancer, but in the Hanafuda minigames, it's pushed to the extreme, with Lancer being pushed around and berated by Gilgamesh and Kirei, pummeled by Berserker, getting called a moron by HIMSELF, and having all his hard earned money stolen by Caren to pay for their hot springs trip. When Kotomine's team is doing poorly in a game, the blame immediately goes to Lancer, and Kirei says it's "seppuku time." When Lancer gets flattenned by Berserker, Gilgamesh say that Lancer's kind is "the lowest of the low, basic human rights need not apply to him", and admits that the only thing he needs Lancer for is holding his cards while they play- and that' not even in a route that directly involves Kotomine's team, Lancer can't escape abuse even in other people's routes!

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* The Butt Monkey: It's expected with Lancer, but in the Hanafuda minigames, it's pushed to the extreme, with Lancer being pushed around and berated by Gilgamesh and Kirei, pummeled by Berserker, getting called a moron by HIMSELF, and having all his hard earned money stolen by Caren to pay for their hot springs trip. When Kotomine's team is doing poorly in a game, the blame immediately goes to Lancer, and Kirei says it's "seppuku time." When Lancer gets flattenned by Berserker, Gilgamesh say that Lancer's kind is "the lowest of the low, basic human rights need not apply to him", and admits that the only thing he needs Lancer for is holding his cards while they play- and that' not even in a route that directly involves Kotomine's team, Lancer can't escape abuse even in other people's routes!

* Butt Monkey: It's expected with Lancer, but in the Hanafuda minigames, it's pushed to the extreme, with Lancer being pushed around and berated by Gilgamesh and Kirei, pummeled by Berserker, getting called a moron by HIMSELF, and having all his hard earned money stolen by Caren to pay for their hot springs trip. When Kotomine's team is doing poorly in a game, the blame immediately goes to Lancer, and Kirei says it's "seppuku time." When Lancer gets flattenned by Berserker, Gilgamesh say that Lancer's kind is "the lowest of the low, basic human rights need not apply to him", and admits that the only thing he needs Lancer for is holding his cards while they play- and that' not even in a route that directly involves Kotomine's team, Lancer can't escape abuse even in other people's routes!

* NotIfTheyEnjoyedItRationalization: [[spoiler:Avenger rapes Caren, but this is not addressed much by either party, and they both seem to come out better people for it...]]

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* NotIfTheyEnjoyedItRationalization: [[spoiler:Avenger rapes Caren, but this is not addressed much by either party, and they both seem to come out better people for it...it. Caren 'begins to consent' halfway through, and doesn't seem particularly upset about the encounter afterward. They even have a romantic and touching moment later on...]]

* AscendedMeme: The idea of Archer having an Unlimited Food Works attack, given [[spoiler:his younger self]] loved to cook. In the Illya Castle minigame, he assaults his enemies with a hail of cooking utensils.

Reason: Moved across from the Carnival Phantasm page because this is where it was done first.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: You might expect that now the Holy Grail War is over (and almost all the characters are inexplicably still alive) they'd take the time to explore [[spoiler:Archer's backstory, particularly what he went through to turn him from the idealistic Emiya Shirou to the cynical Archer, as well as how he's dealing with being back in ''his own'' past, seeing people he knew from his youth again]]. You might expect this. But apart from a single scene where [[ThoseTwoGuys Those Three Girls]] mention that [[spoiler:Archer]] seems strangely familiar for some reason, you'd be completely wrong and [[spoiler:Shirou and Archer]] just continue with their usual offhandedly antagonistic relationship.

** ''The ending.'' [[spoiler:Angra Mainyu's final confrontation with Bazett, the reveal that ''he saved her life'' so she can return to the real world alive, their final parting and Angra Mainyu's HeroicSacrifice to end the cycle of four days, [[FaceDeathWithDignity calmly accepting]] that he must return to nothingness because [[MorphicResonance taking on Shirou's form has made him also a "hero of justice".]]]]

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** ''The ending.'' [[spoiler:Angra Mainyu's final confrontation with Bazett, the reveal that ''he saved her life'' so she can return to the real world alive, their final parting and Angra Mainyu's HeroicSacrifice to end the cycle of four days, [[FaceDeathWithDignity calmly accepting]] that he must return to nothingness because [[MorphicResonance [[BecomingTheMask taking on Shirou's form has made him also a "hero of justice".]]]]

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